me-metals: Norway has paused its controversial plans to mine the seabed in Arctic-reaching territorial waters after the Socialist Left Party (SV), a small left-wing environmentalist group, secured an agreement to delay the initiative in exchange for supporting the national budget.
News ID: 11531 Publish Date : 2024/12/03
me-metals: Lithium Argentina (TSX: LAAC) is seeking to redomicile to Switzerland and change its name to Lithium Argentina AG following a corporate review and a new agreement with investor Ganfeng Lithium, the company said Friday.
News ID: 11524 Publish Date : 2024/11/30
me-metals: While the global electric car market has certainly slowed down from the rapid growth of the last few years, particularly in Europe, year to date unit sales (including plug-in and conventional hybrids) are set to easily top 20 million for the first time.
News ID: 11519 Publish Date : 2024/11/29
me-metals: The Western Australian government has unveiled a support package worth up to A$150 million ($97 million) in interest-free loans to keep the state’s struggling hard rock lithium sector afloat.
News ID: 11518 Publish Date : 2024/11/28
me-metals: Bolivia’s government and Chinese consortium CBC, which includes battery manufacturer CATL, have signed an agreement for CBC to build two direct lithium extraction plants for at least $1 billion, government authorities said on Tuesday.
News ID: 11517 Publish Date : 2024/11/27
me-metals: British Columbia Premier David Eby on Monday split the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation into two: Mining and Critical Minerals and Energy and Climate Solutions, to fast-track projects and tackle regulatory and social challenges.
News ID: 11494 Publish Date : 2024/11/20
me-metals: Zimbabwe lithium miners want royalty payments to the government linked to metal prices as the current market downturn threatens the viability of investment projects.
News ID: 11476 Publish Date : 2024/11/17
me-metals: Lithium is enjoying a mini-revival on an uptick in Chinese electric vehicle demand and supply cuts, although analysts caution there’s still likely to be a surplus of the battery metal in 2025.
News ID: 11470 Publish Date : 2024/11/15
me-metals: Mineral Resources (ASX: MIN), which is rallying from a polemic probe involving its founder and former chief executive Chris Ellison, will shut its Bald Hill lithium mine in Western Australia immediately due to an ongoing and steep decline in lithium prices.
News ID: 11467 Publish Date : 2024/11/14
me-metals: Zimbabwe said it won’t grant further tax relief to mining houses from next January in a bid to force them to complete plants to process raw materials.
News ID: 11465 Publish Date : 2024/11/13
me-metals: Arcadium, the lithium producer that has agreed to sell itself to Rio Tinto, posted an 82% drop in quarterly income on Thursday that missed Wall Street’s expectations due to sliding prices of the electric vehicle battery metal.
News ID: 11456 Publish Date : 2024/11/11
me-metals: Battery metals junior Patriot Lithium (ASX: PAT) plans to add copper to its portfolio through an agreement with Array Metals and Natural Resources allowing it to earn an 80% interest in the Katwaro project in Zambia.
News ID: 11361 Publish Date : 2024/10/14
me-metals:A little over a decade ago, Rio Tinto Group was reeling from the impact of disastrous investments. First, the bruising top-of-the-market purchase of aluminum group Alcan Inc., and then the ill-conceived swoop for Mozambique-focused coal outfit Riversdale Mining Ltd. The commodities boom cooled, top managers were pushed out and writedowns piled up.
News ID: 11359 Publish Date : 2024/10/14
me-metals: Rio Tinto’s $6.7 billion buyout of Arcadium will give it a suite of lithium filtration technologies that are poised to revolutionize how the metal is produced for the electronics and electric vehicle industries.
News ID: 11358 Publish Date : 2024/10/14
me-metals: London-based Savannah Resources expects the price of lithium to rebound by 2027, when it hopes to start commercial production at its mining project in Portugal, CEO Emanuel Proenca said on Friday.
News ID: 11355 Publish Date : 2024/10/13
Mining companies say they do not fear a plan by China’s CATL to make an electric vehicle (EV) battery without lithium or other key metals because the new design will have a limited range and more-powerful rival battery technologies will gobble up minerals supply in coming years.
News ID: 10267 Publish Date : 2021/11/22
KoBold Metals, a start-up with a team of mostly phds backed by a coalition of billionaires is on a global search for key battery metals cobalt, lithium and nickel, as well as copper, which is key to the green energy transition, using advanced mapping technology.
News ID: 10144 Publish Date : 2021/02/08
Lithium prices are soaring in China on the back of heavy demand for lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries, a new report by battery supply chain research and price reporting agency Benchmark Mineral Intelligence shows.
News ID: 10122 Publish Date : 2021/02/03
Elon Musk and his merry band of executive vice presidents had plenty of advice for the mining and metals industry at the company’s Battery Day event in September, where the road map to a $25,000 Tesla was laid out.
News ID: 10080 Publish Date : 2021/01/29
Production of graphite, lithium and cobalt may need to rise by nearly 500pc by 2050 from 2018 levels to meet demand from energy storage technologies in the clean energy transition, the World Bank said.
News ID: 9492 Publish Date : 2020/05/15